Do you have to be just a poet? Novelist? Why not both?
From the great people at bookslut.com comes this interesting little essay by Weston Cutter called Choose Your Own Adventure about writing crossovers from fiction/nonfiction/poetry, as well as pointing out the major difference in pay between, in their example, poetry and book reviews. It’s not terribly long either, so go read it, you’ll be glad you did.